Any issues with MSI K8T-NEO-FIS2R?

[Eric Varsanyi]

I'll add my .02 as well: Our company makes a product that embeds tyan 
and supermicro motherboards. It took our H/W guys months to make the
Tyan boards (these were P3 boards, S1568 I think, the supermicro's are
the P4's) stable with 4G of RAM, basically Tyan support didn't help at
all but our memory vendor was willing to experiment (due to the large
volumes) and found that the Tyan boards required slightly different timings
programmed into the SPD's and a slightly different configuration of decoupling
caps on the sticks. Once we had memory that worked with these boards they
were rock solid. We went thru a similar but much less painful dance trying to
get 8G working on the P4 Supermicro boards (P4DPE), I think it went faster
because Supermicro gave us better support and worked with the memory vendor.

I have 1 test Opteron system from last year with 8G on it, but since the
memory is distributed and the memory controllers are in the CPU's I had
no problems at all using standard registered gig sticks from the outset.

-Eric

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:33:54AM -0500, Mark Reis wrote:
> As long as everyone is putting in their 2c, I would give a word of caution
> about Tyan. This comes from two recent bad experiences with their
> motherboards. 1) We have >20 machines in a cluster all running dual Athlon
> MPs and they started out with 4GB of ECC ram. To make along story short,
> there was absolutely no way to make these machines stable with 4 sticks of
> memory. We had to sell back, at a lost, the extra 1GB DIMMS. 2) Bad RMA
> support. Another Tyan dual proc board, in a different system, failed within
> the warranty period from Tyan. Trying to RMA the board was a Herculean
> effort and did not go well. We've had respectable luck our MSI Opteron
> boards K8D Master FTs.
> 
> -Mark Reis
> UVa CS Department
> 
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> On February 26, 2004 10:03 pm, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 February 2004 20:46, Ashley Gittins wrote:
> > > If there are good reasons why I should look at another board, or another
> > > chipset altogether, I'd love to hear them. I'll be using Fedora for my
> > > day-to-day work (general desktop stuff, some devel, graphics) and will
> > > be dual-booting with XP purely for games.
> > >
> > > I don't expect a completely smoth ride on AMD64, but I wouldn't mind
> > > being able to start out with something proven, and sit back on the bit
> > > where the bleeding edge has just started to congeal :-)
> 
> We have sold one and haven't heard any complaints but personally I would
> look 
> at getting a Tyan S2875S instead. It takes the S940 Opteron 14x series or 
> Athlon64 FX processors. It comes with AC97 sound that works under linux, 
> GigE, SIL3114 4 Port SATA RAID (Much better than promise and linux support 
> now exists). It uses an AMD chipset which is well supported. The only 
> complaint we have is that you need to remove the audio connectors to fit it 
> in a 1U case.
> 
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